Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1869 — Dog Taxes. [ARTICLE]

Dog Taxes.

-The ptJiauapolia JmwmW *JvoOAlw the let ying of a national tex <foga for jllio following reaxotfs: *,*«• A b ’* cd ot *•4. Il weald guard Um aheep, thus foaterSQm prafiactwa as wool and increaaUg national reveaaa In that direction. I„, “3d. It would kdd to Um security and wealth at ttedfariaMa, who, in ahnoal evary u Mh It waald add directly, a handsome aaaa la the national teVenera.” That a tax of thia kind might be made to yield a largo revenue, no one will question, but would it be advieaMe to para each a law? Our taxea are already very heavy and perhaps bear with unequal weight upon the poor, yej. here is a paper aspiring to the state organ of a party yi/ieh professes to care especially for the interests and well being (4 the poorer class advocating np additional tax, as though those already borne were uot enough and altogether too much. And such a tax! The State tax ujton dogs already falls with tornble weight upon the poor individual who is the poraesKor of half a dozen of these .quadrupedal embodiments of fidelity and styi tliis poor man’s champion would pile Ossa upon Pelion Jby adding a national tax. Lot such a thing but once be ju-riously agitated by men of influence and such a storm of anathemas will bo hurled at the beads of its originators, from the ranks of both parties, as would cause the bravest to pause and tremble, for. will it not bo the cause of reducing persons who now scarcely know the comforts of life still lower down the declining plane of poverty jiresaing to their unwilling lips the >ha!ice until it is drained to the bitterest dregs? Bat they need not keep dogs if they do not wish to bo taxed? Ayo there's the rub! They can not, will not give up their dogs; and the more cur the more attached Is his owner. The owner may give

up his wife, Id, horse, yes, even ‘((art jrith clothing himself with the resignation and delusion of martyrdom, but his mangy, snarling, thievish fisto, never. ' ujUl the breed of the several species? Seldom. Nomatter how mndh may be assessed 'mean dogs can’t Ate taxed out of existence neither ean the breeds be Improved by the collection of rev4eiiuo, for as generation after generAtfou ot poverty stricken, shiftless people are born, live and die, transmitting from father to son and son to grandson, the same vices, peculiarities and habits, so long will generation after generation of worthless canines be brought forth, petted and mourned. We have knowu men who were accounted, by those who were not admirers of dogs, to be poor in this world's goods, who owned from six to $ dozen yelping half starved jbrutes, good for nothing under the £un, yet tjiey <eon)d not be induced .to part .one of them. A tax would 1 bread from the families of won but would Jpci,ther decrease ip?r Jup jurors their worthless dogs. In the name of the owners of dogs in America, and in behalf of the dogs themselves, wp enter our solemn protest against the passage of a national dog tax law.

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